@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 1 month agoWhen you die, what do you want to be done with you?message-square172fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down15file-text
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minus-square@surewhynotlemlink4•1 month agoIf you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink3•1 month agoI thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
minus-square@spittingimagelink1•1 month agoThey are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoI believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoThats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
I thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn’t seem at all respectful.
I believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
Thats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.